Who gets what history?

One of the major challenges of this investigation into the Slave Songs of the United States has been figuring out how to describe this genre of music. What Allen, Ware, and McKim Garrison label as “slave songs” can also be considered under a number of...

Coordinating People and Places

When we talk about mapping people, not just places, what else is necessary? Let me step back momentarily to the first instance of my involvement on this project: CURI summer 2015. My particular project on that larger endeavor was the composition of a short,...

Does your map have to make an argument?

At various points in this course, the question of whether a digital map has to have or make an argument has pushed itself to the forefront of our conversations on the digital humanities. On the one hand, I might argue that, well, of course it does. Not so much because...